Lessons on Living from RUTH TWICE OWNED

RUTH 4:9 : And Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.” A father and son built a toy sailboat. Before launching it, the...

Continue reading

Lessons on Living from RUTH NEARSIGHTED

RUTH 4:5-6 : Then Boaz said, “on the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also buy it from Ruth the moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.” and the near kinsman said, “I cannot...

Continue reading

Lessons on Living from RUTH SIT STILL

RUTH 3:18 : Then she said, “Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will turn out; for the man will not rest until he has concluded the matter this day… American culture is built around the often quoted phrase, “Don’t just stand there, do something!” As a...

Continue reading

Lessons on Living from RUTH DO NOT GO EMPTY-HANDED

RUTH 3:17 : And she said, “These six ephahs of barley he gave me; for he said to me, ‘Do not go empty-handed to your mother-in-law.'” Recently the Barna Research Group announced its findings that the number of evangelicals in the United States is only about 6 percent (decreasing from...

Continue reading

Lessons on Living from RUTH A VIRTUOUS WOMAN

Ruth 3:11 : “And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you request, for all the people of my town know that you are a virtuous woman.” Blaise Pascal, a 17th century philosopher and theologian, declared, “The virtue of a man ought to be...

Continue reading

Lessons on Living from RUTH IN THE DARK

RUTH 3:8 : Now it happened at midnight that the man was startled, and turned himself; and there, a woman was lying at his feet. Most crimes take place in the dark. In the dark of the night a thief slips into a home to steal. In dimly lit parking...

Continue reading

Lessons on Living from RUTH ABIDE WITH ME

RUTH 2:22-23 : And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It Is good, my daughter that you go out with his young women, and that people do not meet you in any other field.” So she stayed close by the young women of Boaz, to glean until the end of...

Continue reading

Lessons on Living from RUTH UNDER HIS WINGS

RUTH 2:12 : “The LORD repay your work and a full reward be given you by the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.” Birds use their wings for many purposes other than flying. In times of danger, a mother bird’s wings provide a feathered...

Continue reading